Admin defends webcam streaming site as authorities condemn privacy invasion — Red Herring

le site (insecam) ne fonctionne plus

UPDATE 21/11/2014

Owner of insecam.com already removed all the information of his web site.

With humour.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/834089insecamcom.jpg

Apparently some instances worked on objecting the site’s content:

UK moves to shut down Russian hackers streaming live British webcam footage
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/20/webcam-hackers-watching-you-watchdog-warns

The site, which has been operating for a month, has become the source of concern for data watchdogs across the world. Graham said: “I think this started in Macau and Hong Kong; they alerted the Australians, the Australians alerted the Canadians, he Canadians alerted us. We have known about this for about 24 hours and we’ve been working out how best to deal with it. This is a good example of cooperation between data protection authorities across the world.”

Administrator of insecam speaks:
▻http://www.redherring.com/internet/admin-defends-webcam-streaming-site-authorities-condemn-privacy-invasion

“I had a database of 160,000 cameras with default passwords,” added the admin, who vowed to shut down any ‘unethical’ feeds manually. “About 110,000 became unavailable because of changed passwords by owners. It is a good result. These people were watched for a many years and now they got a chance to know about the problem.”

UPDATE 25/11/2014
Site is back, only showing public cameras, without password.

►http://www.insecam.cc

The following changes were made to InSeCam for the protection of individual privacy:
– All automatically collected cameras are removed from the site and only filtered cameras are available now. This way none of the cameras on Insecam invade anybody’s private life.
– InSeCam has also removed all cameras that still use default password settings. Only public cameras without password protection at all are available on Insecam.
– Any camera will be removed immediately upon e-mail complaint. Please provide a direct link to help facilitate the prompt removal of the camera.
– If you do not want to contact us by e-mail, you can still remove your camera from InSeCam, the only thing you need to do is to set the password of your camera.

backup: ▻https://web.archive.org/web/20141125142027/http://www.insecam.cc